1957 Lotus Eleven LM 150Photo: Shifting Focus It was still very early days for the small, but growing firm of Lotus...
During the coming months, Sports Car Digest will be running a series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive...
Scuderia Ferrari made its debut in the Formula 1 World Championship on May 21st, 1950, on the very same circuit that winds its way through the Principality of Monaco and which this coming Sunday, hosts the sixth round of the 2012 World Championship. There were four Ferraris entered in the...
By Art Evans | Photos as credited All of us have lost one of the dominant figures of the post-WWII...
By William Edgar | Photographs Edgar Motorsport Archive Carroll Shelby, as he himself would say, has gone horizontal. He died...
By Art Evans What is the foremost racing series in the world? If you said Formula One, you are in the company of most other enthusiasts. The series consists of a yearly Grand Prix in each participating country (although in a few instances, there was more than one). Even though...
The author found the Amon AF101 quite enjoyable to drive at Donington, now that it has been extensively developed—note particularly...
By Art Evans | Photos as credited On the morning of April 18, 2012, I received a call that Andy...
Renngruppe Rendezvous By Louis Scalzo | Photos by Tom Morgan Renngruppe Motorsports is located in Lexington, North Carolina in a industrial park area looking like a very ordinary brick fronted metal building, blending in with all the others in the area. When you enter the spacious facility, formerly home of...
Interview by Dennis Gray | Photos by Gray unless noted Jon Shirley makes good decisions whether finding and buying one-off...
“At this time there is nothing in the world any quicker, any better handling, any more advanced technically, or any...
Boy Meets Car, Loses Car, Finds Car By Steve Smith | Photographs as credited Every car guy has the automotive equivalent of the fisherman’s “the one that got away” story (“It was this big! Really!”). The car of a lifetime…loved and lost. Some car guys even have two such tales....
The author puts his back into steering the Trimax through a left hander at Mallory Park.Photo: Andy Thorpe Was Alvin...
Sebring in 1973 was the beginning of a new era for the legendary track. The Alec Ulmann era had ended...
By Art Evans What do you think was the toughest and most difficult race ever? After reading my September 2011 history column, you might say the New York to Paris. Then there was the 1950-54 La Carrera Panamericana. But these were short-lived point-to-point contests. How about a closed circuit race?...
Alan Mann, who died on March 21, 2012 at the age of 75, was a highly successful motor racing team...
The 12 Hours of Sebring was held March 17, 2012 at Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. The 60th anniversary...
By Art Evans The Tourist Trophy is the oldest motor race in the world still being run. The first was in 1905 on the Isle of Man, organized by the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland. The trophy itself is given by the Royal Automobile Club to the winner....
By Bob Harmeyer Sebring International Raceway, located on a former Army Air Force base situated among the orange groves of...
Aston Martin and Zagato have collaborated on several automobiles, starting with the famed Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato up to...
The Eppie Wietzes F5000 Championship-winning McLaren M-10B By Kevin Triplett | Photos by Dennis Gray From his earliest days as car designer and builder, Bruce McLaren understood that success of his designs on the race track lead to opportunities to sell customer cars. Bruce’s interests lie in developing new cars,...
“Dear editors – The new Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (Super Light) sports car will complete test drives in public for the...
By William Edgar | Photographs as Credited It was July 19, 1974 that I really got to know John Young...
With over 50 years in motorsports – as a driver and team owner – American A. J. Foyt’s remarkable career has seen him make his mark nationally and abroad in at least four countries: Canada, Great Britain, France and New Zealand. His race record includes: winning the Indianapolis 500 four...
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 was held January 28-29 on the 12-turn, 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway, a combined...
By Csaba Kiss If one has the occasion to visit Yvan Mahe’s Equipe Europe workshop in Ozouer Le Voulgis, France,...
Report and photos (unless noted) by Peter Helbach The Louwman Museum was opened by HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on July 2, 2010. This opening marked the culmination of eight years of very hard work by Mr. Evert Louwman and his management team, led by Museum director Ronald Kooyman....
1967 24 Hours of Daytona – The Revenge of “Il Commendatore” By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The year...
By Kevin Triplett | Photos by Dennis Gray One of the oldest open-wheel racing cars competing at the 2011 CSRG...
By Bob Harmeyer Daytona International Speedway in 2012 is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the track’s first road race, a three hour event won by Dan Gurney when he coasted across the finish line with a blown engine. The first two road races were three hour events, the third and...
